Sabin Willett, who represented the Guantanamo Uighurs in Parhat and Kiyemba, writes in with the following comments about Latif:
It is not hyperventilation to say, as so many have said, that Latif guts Boumediene, because — trust
I have only read the D.C. Circuit’s Khan opinion very quickly and may have further thoughts when I dive in a little deeper. On brief perusal, though, it seems to me that the chief importance of the decision–written by Judge … Read more »
Yesterday, Lyle Denniston posted a recap of all eight currently pending detainee cert. petitions over at SCOTUSblog. Three of those eight cover what we might call transfer and release issues. Petitioners filed the last of those three yesterday, making it … Read more »
Brookings Legal Fellow Larkin Reynolds, who has been working with Bobby and me on a second edition of our monograph on “The Emerging Law of Detention,” recently handed me a chart she had constructed that attempted to quantify … Read more »
One of the many headaches associated with the GTMO habeas litigation concerns the process of deciding which items of information used in the litigation should be treated as “protected information” that can be shared only with the detainee’s counsel and … Read more »
Ben has previously posted at length (see here for the first installment) regarding the pros and cons of Senator Graham’s bill on detention (see here for the first in the series), and over the weekend Steve Vladeck joined the conversation… Read more »
Friday, May 24, 2013
Coverage of President Obama’s speech yesterday is plentiful: Here are Peter Baker of the New York Times, Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller of the Washington Post, and Mark Mazzetti of the Times with an analysis of the key points of the speech. Scott Wilson of the Post also provides a rundown of the speech, and cites Ben. The Associated Press reports on lifting the transfer ban on Yemeni detainees, and Colleen McCain Nelson, Adam Entous, and Julia E. Barnes… Read more »
